The judiciary is shredding measures that are intended to defend us

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The decision of a judge to free two Pakistani students while in the same breath declaring them to be al-Qaeda operatives will leave the public speechless.

The arrest of foreign students in Manchester and Liverpool was criticised last year but can now be seen to have been justified. The court was swayed against deporting these two men back to Pakistan, however, by the fear that they would be tortured in their homeland.

This case exposes how common sense and the protection of our communities is a secondary consideration to the human rights of the men who may attack us.